>We could debate the merit of preemptive strike all day long, but the issue is that the war was poorly planned and executed.
I don't think that's the issue at all. The war was wrong to begin with, and for her role in starting it she should apologize. The fact that Bush mangled the execution is a separate matter.
I don't want a Democratic President who essentially believes the Bush-McCain doctrine but thinks it needs to be implemented more competently.
whether or not hillary repudiates her vote goes to does she believe in some of the neocon premises or not? or is her regret that Bush is incompetent?
That is exactly the issue. As Richardson said last weekend, "The Iraq War isn't the disease. Iraq is a symptom."
Folks like Hillary don't seem to be wrapping their heads around the fact that the idea of invading Iraq was a bad one even with the information we had at the time.
And the "there are no do-overs" bit actually makes me angry. It's far too close to the "let's not play the blame game" stuff that we hear from certain quarters. And almost flip when you consider the consequences for the Iraqi people and America.
This is extremely important to discuss and work through because we need to understand that the folks running our country won't do anything like that ever again. Clinton's answers are far too dismissive for me to take seriously the idea that she has truly learned the folly of excess militarism and saber-rattling.
I tell ya, if someone sat down with me and had me design a campaign that would turn me off from a candidate, it'd look pretty close to Clinton's.
